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7 Installing Additional Software

Now that we have added additional repositories, a lot more packages are available in our package manager for installation, especially a big deal of our needed packages. To install them, go to Computer > Install Software:

Type in the root password:

The Software Manager window comes up:

Make sure that you select the Available button (it should have a colour slightly different compared to the Upgrades and Installed buttons). You can use the search field to search for specific packages. If you've found a package that you'd like to install, mark it and click on the Install button:

A new column will be added on the right side which lists the selected packages (and their dependencies which will be installed automatically):

Select the following packages for installation (* is a wildcard; e.g. xmms* means all packages that start with xmms):

picasa

opera

MozillaThunderbird

Vuze

MPlayer

mplayerplug-in

xmms*

dvdrip

vlc

vlc-mozillaplugin

acroread

gnucash

scribus

scribus-templates

amarok

audacity

rhythmbox

gtkpod

sound-juicer

xine-ui

libxine1-codecs

k3b

w32codec-all

libdvdcss

kompozer

kdewebdev4

free-ttf-fonts

gstreamer-0_10*

java-1_6_0-openjdk

java-1_6_0-openjdk-plugin

java-1_6_0-sun-plugin

GeoIP (needed by aMule)

libGeoIP1 (needed by aMule)

lsb (needed by Helix Player)

libqt4-devel (needed by Skype)

virtualbox-ose

aMule

Click on the Apply button afterwards:

The packages are now being downloaded from the repositories and installed. This can take a few minutes, so please be patient:

7.1 Additional Codecs

This is a meta package that installs some additional codecs - just follow the YaST installation wizard:

7.2 Finish The VirtualBox Installation

To finish the VirtualBox installation (we've already installed the virtualbox-ose package), we need to add our desktop user (falko in my case) to the vboxusers group. To do this, open a terminal and become root:

su

Run the following command...

usermod -G vboxusers falko

... and log out of your desktop and back in for the changes to take effect.

8 Inventory (II)

Now let's check again what we have so far by browsing the menus again.